Officer shoots self with colleague's gun

Assistant Chief of Police Wayne Miller said Officer Gerald Zito alone in a department training room when he shot himself in the lower abdomen with a .22-caliber handgun. Zito was considering buying the firearm for his personal use.

The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports that Zito underwent emergency surgery and on Friday was listed in stable condition at a Daytona Beach hospital.

Miller said the agency will conduct an internal investigation.

Third-grader brings gun to school

FORT LAUDERDALE -- A third-grader has been suspended from a Fort Lauderdale elementary school after he showed off an unloaded automatic handgun in class.

Broward County School District spokesman Keith Bromery says it's not clear where the 9-year-old got the .380-caliber gun. He'd shown it to classmates on Tuesday and someone told school administrators. Police were notified.